Doo-Ri Chung has quickly established herself as a designer whose work is as admired for its beauty as its technical brilliance. Since she launched her signature collection in 2003, Doo-Ri Chung has made her mark as one of the leading lights of the next generation of great American designers.

She graduated from the prestigious Parsons School of Design to work with the legendary Geoffrey Beene, where she worked for five years and rose to the position of Lead Designer. During her tenure there, she honed her gifts for the sinuous draping and technical precision that have become the hallmarks of Doo-Ri. In her collections, she applies couture techniques to sportswear fabrics like jersey, wool gabardine and leather. “In my creative process, I am constantly thinking of juxtapositions of fixed versus fluid, tailored versus unconstructed, as well as thinking of how to convey and accentuate the female form in innovative ways. New ways of approaching how women dress is a constant source inspiration for me,” says Chung.

The brand rapidly found critical and commercial success in the densely-populated New York design community. Within a year of launching her label, Chung was named as a finalist in the first-ever Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Fashion Fund (CVFF), and was prominently featured in the Douglas Keeve film Seamless, which documented the challenges and triumphs of three talented designers with growing businesses. By 2005, she had been inducted as a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), and in 2006 won the Samsung Fashion Design Fund Award, CFDA Swarovski/Perry Ellis Award for Emerging Design Talent and the CVFF grand prize. In that same year, she also became the first American designer to be nominated for Switzerland’s Stella Award.

Doo.Ri has been featured in New York Magazine, The New York Times, Town and Country and Women’s Wear Daily, as well as American and international editions of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and In Style, Marie Claire, among others. The collection is available at such prestigious retailers as Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Ron Herman, and several other fine boutiques and specialty stores across North America, Asia and Europe.